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Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	You do n't honestly expect me to agree to a statement like that , do you ? ’ he snapped violently .
2	‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger .
3	It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land !
4	‘ Ca n't think of anywhere myself , let me think for a minute .
5	‘ Let me think for a while . ’
6	E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor
7	Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’
8	It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert .
9	It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church .
10	She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace .
11	I know what 's coming , it 's always the same , please God make her stop , help me bear it , let me think of a poem to say as a distraction , make this all go away , Charlotte , Alexander , Mother , everything , only not father , not the farm — ;
12	‘ She means me to go without a character .
13	‘ Well , perhaps you might allow me to go for a walk from time to time , instead of waiting around in the servants ’ hall .
14	‘ They want me to go on a course , the company runs it , so 's I can demonstrate the new machine .
15	When did you ever know me to go on a diet ?
16	I finally stopped going to school when Charlie did , and Eva arranged for me to go to a college where I could finish my A levels .
17	You want me to go in a garage and ask for , have you got a flick on band !
18	A pattern is forming — a str–tegy , her strategy — her acting , me reacting like a frog 's hind leg !
19	And he 's sent me to sit with a boy !
20	I did n't enjoy hurting friends , but each blow did in some way help me to cope with a temper .
21	Leaving me to cope with a situation that is way beyond me ! ’
22	She watched me eat for a while , mumbled something and left .
23	They ate nothing themselves , but watched me eat with a sort of respectful deference which made me uneasy , it being , I felt , inappropriate and therefore dangerous .
24	I had no intention of trying to explain the whereabouts of Sunil 's goods to Sunil or his henchmen until I 'd made contact with Zaria , and if she did n't come across soon there was a good chance she 'd find me hanging from a Christmas tree by the neck .
25	There 's no point in me appearing with a pig-tail and diamanté donkey jacket .
26	Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman .
27	My father wished me to try for a history scholarship and I occasionally read as hard as it was possible to do without any interest in history beyond the attempt to memorize facts … .
28	‘ People would expect me to come into a room and crack them up , ’ Rowan , 36 , told Cosmopolitan magazine .
29	actually it 's a bit boring down there now but they , they had to put my , my explanation of the price of petrol er down , there 's nowhere to thing , cos th the last time I was down there I asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and I wanted two pound thirty or something .
30	I asked for a bowl , there was an embarrassed silence when no one moved to my aid ( thinking I felt sick ! ) — and my waters soaked the kitchen floor .